Trip to Poland and Hungary
Krakow, Oświęcim, Budapest
Francesco Lotoro, Grazia Tiritiello

We met Christof Kulisiewicz , son of Aleksander Kulisiewicz, a Polish singer and composer deported to Sachsenhausen; in addition to acquiring three folders of autographed material and 14 musical manuscripts, Christof gave us other phonographic and book material and allowed us to scan the materials kept at his father's cottage, not far from Krakow.
Christof Kulisiewicz has arranged for the most important manuscript in his collection, Le Crucifiè, written by his father in Sachsenhausen, to be donated to the ILMC Foundation; he has asked for a month's time to produce some high-definition reproductions of it.
The next day we moved by bus to We went to Oświęcim to visit the Auschwitz Museum ; we scanned the Diary of Polish deportee Kazimierz Tyminski , a piano piece written by Adam Kopyciński, and the score of Ich bin heute, ja so vediebt arranged for orchestra by Józef Kropinski.
We traveled via Flixbus to Budapest ; at the Institute for Musicology , we acquired a copy of the Sonata for Solo Violin written in captivity by the Hungarian-Jewish composer Sándor Kuti.
We went to the Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár , the Budapest Metropolitan Library, where we had made an appointment; the staff had…








